Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-Wrapping book.
Use Your folded fabrics to: Gift-wrap anything from books to flowers Bundle up a picnic Tote items around Use as a handbag or backpack Make into a pillow covering Create decorative coverings for vases, tissue boxes, and more A quiet reminder that opportunities for artistry are everywhere around you, Wrapping with Fabric is the craft book that makes it easy to bring a touch of grace and ingenuity to everyday life--and help preserve the environment, too..
From there, she shares the myriad ways in which a few basic techniques can transform a simple square of cloth into an elegant wrapper.
In Wrapping with Fabric , Etsuko Yamada--born into a long-line of Furoshiki makers in Kyoto--explains the one cloth, many uses ideology behind the craft, the etiquette of color and the craft\'s fascinating history.
Long before today\'s eco-friendly philosophy of reduce, reuse, recycle entered America\'s collective consciousness, furoshiki--the Japanese method of Wrapping things with fabric--flourished as a time-honored and practical art form.
Wrap anything from a wine bottle to a yoga mat with this practical Japanese fabric-Wrapping book
